Hacking Vim 7.2 [[electronic resource] ] : ready-to-use hacks with solutions for common situations encountered by users of the Vim editor / / Kim Schulz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459420903321
• Autore: Schulz Kim
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Birmingham, U.K., : Packt Open Source, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-55744-0; 9786612557446; 1-84951-051-2
• Edizione: [1st edition]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (244 p.)
• Disciplina: 005.4; 005.43
• Soggetti: Text editors (Computer programs); Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Getting Started with Vim; Getting Vim; vi, Vim, and friends; vi; STEVIE; Elvis; nvi; Vim; Vile; Compatibility; Vim is charityware; Common terminology; Summary; Chapter 2: Personalizing Vim; Where are the configuration files?; Changing the fonts; Changing color scheme; Personal highlighting; Example 1: Mark color characters after a certain column; Example 2: Mark tabs not used for indentation in code; Example 3: Preventing errors caused by IP addresses; A more informative status line; Toggle menu and toolbar Adding your own menu and toolbar buttons; Adding a menu; Adding toolbar icons; Modifying tabs; Work area personalization; Adding a more visual cursor; Adding line numbers; Spell checking your language; Adding helpful tool tips; Using abbreviations; Example 1: Using abbreviations for quick address insertion; Modifying key bindings; Summary; Chapter 3: Better Navigation; Faster navigation in a file; Context-aware navigation; Moving around within a code file; Moving in a code file; Navigating long lines; Faster navigation in Vim help; Faster navigation in multiple ; buffers; Open referenced files faster Search and you will find; Search the current file; Example 1: Find the next occurrence of a word; Example 2: Search for a word under the cursor; Search in multiple files; Search the help system; X marks the spot; Visible markers-using signs; Hidden markers-using marks; Summary; Chapter 4: Production Boosters; Using templates; Using template files; Abbreviations as templates; Snippets with the snipMate script; Using tag lists; Easier taglist navigation; Other usages of taglists; Using autocompletion; Autocompletion with known words; Autocompletion using dictionary lookup Omnicompletion; All-in-one completion; Using macro recording; Using sessions; Simple session usage; Satisfy your own session needs; Sessions as a project manager; Registers and undo branching; Using registers; The unnamed register; The small delete register; The numbered registers; The named registers; The read-only registers; The selection and drop registers; The black hole register; Search pattern register; The expression register; Using undo branching; Folding; Simple text file outlining; Using vimdiff to track the changes; Navigation in vimdiff; Using diff to track changes Open files anywhere; Faster remote file editing; Summary; Chapter 5: Advanced Formatting; Formatting text; Putting text into paragraphs; Aligning text; Marking headlines; Creating lists; Formatting code; Autoindent; Smartindent; Cindent; Indentexpr; Fast code-block formatting; Auto format pasted code; Using external formatting tools; Indent; Berkeley Par; Tidy; Summary; Chapter 6: Basic Vim Scripting; Syntax-color schemes; Your first syntax-color file; Syntax regions; Color scheme and syntax coloring; Using scripts; Script types; Installing scripts; Uninstalling scripts
• Sommario/riassunto: Ready-to-use hacks with solutions for common situations encountered by users of the Vim editor